and a fairly chilly morning here, as well... with a brisk 1 degree F. or -17.2 for you celcius fans

6:54 am

smooth_pappa

done

7:03 am

dalebo

It is 29 degrees in Florida and it is cold...

7:05 am

angieplumptit

looks bad for my vitamin c

7:11 am

spreadeagle

Done, needed a few greens.....

7:48 am

angieplumptit

Frozen fast to my chair, but finished

8:19 am

tuco

mwah hah hah!!! Archives finally complete!

8:32 am

spreadeagle

WTG tuco

8:49 am

UDbmas

Ummmmmm.... can I buy a number 3?

8:58 am

btwrt

wow tuco, that's awesome!

9:16 am

kixx

go

9:38 am

franebrown

needed greens unfortunately

9:41 am

UnikeTheHunter

Go.

9:42 am

kixx

done, with greens

9:45 am

yul

hello everybody

9:45 am

btwrt

hi yul, how are you?

9:46 am

yul

surviving in the land of cold and stomach bugs

9:46 am

btwrt

ahh, icky

9:46 am

yul

how are you btwrt?

9:46 am

btwrt

yeah i was in florida over christmas and now that i'm backing in my cold northern state, i'm not very motivated to go outside

9:46 am

btwrt

also i'm not motivated to get any work done after 10 days of vacation ;)

9:47 am

yul

I fill very low energy all together

9:47 am

yul

I think I will do nothing today :)

9:48 am

btwrt

yeah, i don't have much until i start eating my christmas candy ;) then i get energy but i still don't want to do anything

9:48 am

btwrt

haha, me too

9:48 am

yul

except finding some sweet oranges for my other half

9:49 am

yul

that is hard enough

9:52 am

btwrt

i know it, i went out in all this snow and got groceries yesterday, that was exhausting

9:52 am

yul

btwrt, do you have to deal with typographic solutions in your work?

9:52 am

btwrt

it's about 6 degrees F here today and i'm not going outside

9:53 am

btwrt

typographic solutions? i'm not sure what you mean ... but i haven't been doing as much graphic design as website design lately

9:54 am

yul

I see.

9:55 am

yul

I just wanted to get an opinion on on of my creations

9:55 am

btwrt

i'd love to see :)

9:56 am

yul

It's just a postcard. I can't upload it on the net now but I can do it tonight

9:57 am

btwrt

oh ok :) yeah i'd love to see some of the stuff you do.

9:57 am

btwrt

postcards are fun, i haven't done one in a while. i was marketing director for a mortgage office but it closed, the whole industry took a huge dive out this way

9:59 am

yul

I can show you a couple of my books. go to http://rupix.com/pdf/

10:01 am

yul

the telephone book is mine and the other is an exercise in InDesign with improvements from myself

10:03 am

yul

The telephone book is not finished yet. I have to include stills from 'the powers of 10" in several places

10:24 am

btwrt

sorry about the wait. the pdf froze up my firefox ... my acrobat doesn't work right for some reason. i'm going to try IE

10:30 am

btwrt

i got it to work :) this telephone book is awesome, i love your work

10:32 am

RodeoRogue

go

10:46 am

RodeoRogue

going green. frak

10:57 am

drwho

Difficulty score 25. I made it much more difficult for myself. I guess I was a little blind this morning.

10:58 am

RodeoRogue

you are not the only one dr who

10:58 am

drwho

Some days I just can't see the obvious.

10:59 am

RodeoRogue

you and me both

10:59 am

btwrt

it's because you are doing all that calculus while you are figuring the puzzles, dr w :)

11:00 am

sandbox74

go

11:01 am

RodeoRogue

done. once i finally opened my eyes

11:01 am

RodeoRogue

and used greens

11:01 am

drwho

Naw, I do more linear algebra than calculus these days.

11:01 am

btwrt

oh, sorry, my bad

11:04 am

drwho

Yes, you would think linear algebra was custom made for Sudoku, but alas, I haven't found any help there.

11:04 am

btwrt

apparently i play too much sudoku, most of my christmas gifts were sudoku related ;)

11:08 am

drwho

I'm heading out to do some ice skating. Bye.

11:16 am

sandbox74

done.. slow again.. grrr...

11:19 am

Krys10

hi mom :)

11:33 am

yul

btwrt thanks, sorry about the Acrobat thing.

11:33 am

Limer

Big negatory on the ice skating.

11:33 am

btwrt

oh it's no problem, i just haven't updated it in quite some time it nearly always errors out when i open a pdf. i'm lazy to update it because then i have to restart everything and i'm always in the middle of something ;)

11:34 am

btwrt

i want to go ice skating ... i just tried skiing for the first time, now i want to try ice skating. but after some of my bruises heal up ;)

12:07 pm

ypsigirl

DONe

1:24 pm

Andy

Done. Took me 7 hours, needed greens, reds, blues, purples, yellows, and even green clovers. Was the hardest puzzle I've ever found. Finally had to find a gifted, if troubled, child to help me solve it. And even then I ended up using two imaginary numbers and one fraction.

1:57 pm

cyclinggirl

Well, Andy, you did something wrong. You could not have solved this puzzle using a fraction. It's unpossible.

1:58 pm

hurshy

i dunno how so much silliness developed on this site without any assistance from me!

1:59 pm

cyclinggirl

Andy's a funny guy.

1:59 pm

hurshy

yesh.

2:00 pm

cyclinggirl

Sometimes intelligent people aren't funny or have no sense of humor, and I don't like that.

2:01 pm

torgone

You rang?

2:01 pm

hurshy

it seems to me it's much more common for unintelligent people not to be funny...

2:01 pm

hurshy

speaking of humor... :)

2:02 pm

cyclinggirl

Well, if you're talking about laughing-at vs. laughing-with, everyone is kind of funny. But then I guess that's kind of mean spirited.

2:03 pm

torgone

I thought you were talking about people who aren't funny ..

2:03 pm

cyclinggirl

um...

2:03 pm

hurshy

torgone is being funny by pretending he isn't funny

2:04 pm

cyclinggirl

i know. i was being funny pretending he's not funny.

2:04 pm

hurshy

ohhh, see i don't know you well enough to know yet :)

2:04 pm

torgone

Now THAT'S funny ..

2:04 pm

cyclinggirl

Come on, people. Got to keep up!

2:04 pm

hurshy

clearly i am the least funny one here.

2:05 pm

cyclinggirl

[crickets chirping]

2:05 pm

torgone

You very clever and funny, and you know it ..

2:05 pm

hurshy

:P

2:06 pm

torgone

November 27's puzzle is a bit funny ..

2:07 pm

hurshy

i forget what that one was like

2:07 pm

torgone

NOT

2:07 pm

hurshy

it's so long ago

2:07 pm

torgone

I've missed so many, I'm going back in time to try and get some points ..

2:08 pm

hurshy

how martyish of you

2:11 pm

cyclinggirl

who's marty?

2:11 pm

hurshy

is a namesake a person who you're named after, or a person who is named after you? i must look this up.

2:11 pm

hurshy

marty mcfly of back to the future, after whom my cat at left is named (thus prompting my wondering).

2:11 pm

cyclinggirl

named after you

2:11 pm

cyclinggirl

you're cat's the namesake

2:12 pm

cyclinggirl

unless i'm wrong, of course.

2:12 pm

hurshy

yes, that's the main usage, although it can sometimes mean any person with the same name!

2:12 pm

hurshy

i think that before they had sorted out grammar and whatnot, sometimes people used it the other way round.

2:13 pm

hurshy

<-- marty mccat

2:14 pm

cyclinggirl

mine are GoGo and Pepper. they are neither nor do they have namesakes.

2:14 pm

hurshy

i tried to name one of my cats pepper, but it didn't work. she was my first cat and i just kept calling her mitten bc it rhymed with kitten. so that is her name.

2:15 pm

cyclinggirl

pepper was named gilda first. then something else, which i forget. then it was really clear that she was pepper. this was over about 2 weeks. i really, really wanted gilda to work out, it just wouldn't.

2:16 pm

hurshy

i didn't have too much trouble with cinder. she's all dark grey so it just fit.

2:16 pm

hurshy

and marty, well, his personality was so martyish!

2:16 pm

cyclinggirl

what do you have like 42 cats?

2:17 pm

hurshy

no just those 3.

2:19 pm

hurshy

but 42 is a multiple of 3, if that helps.

2:21 pm

torgone

Are we done talking about cats yet?

2:21 pm

hurshy

dude, you can introduce new topics at any time, have you not got that about chatrooms yet?

2:24 pm

torgone

No I have not .. I'm not very bright you know ..

2:24 pm

hurshy

it's one of the basic laws of modern life. chatroom chat is random, thank you notes are only sent to old people, and ... i have a skype.

2:26 pm

torgone

Did you get it from one of your cats?

2:29 pm

hurshy

no, one of my bosses.

2:29 pm

hurshy

it is not a law of life, obviously, just an interruption.

2:33 pm

hurshy

thank you emails or skypes can go to anyone. the physical notes are reserved for old people. it's not the thanking that's out of date, it's the trying-to-fill-up-a-whole-card-when-all-you-h
ave-to-say-is-thanks that's out of date.

2:33 pm

hurshy

and apparently this chat doesn't know to split at hyphens...

2:41 pm

hurshy

there, that's yesterday's done which i messed up yesterday, so now i'm caught up.

2:42 pm

hurshy

two mediums in a row is so harsh.

2:42 pm

hurshy

ttfn

3:03 pm

moedog

man, this is a breeze compared to yesterday's puzzle - so far

3:09 pm

moedog

woo hoo - done!

3:36 pm

aki2403

moedog, I am thinking this one is harder, by a loooooong way, yesterdays was a breeze compared to this